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AI and NLP Driving the Future of Healthcare Innovation in Africa

Africa’s healthcare is entering a transformative era powered by AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP). These technologies are reshaping medical care, from diagnosis and research to patient management, with applications that are tailored to the continent’s unique needs.

Why Linguistic Collaboration Is Important In Advancing NLP Tools in Africa

Understanding a language and how its native speakers speak it requires more than just knowing the words and their meanings. It involves understanding the context, nuances, and cultural aspects that give the language its depth. When we want a machine to “speak” or “understand” a language, it needs to appreciate the elements of phonology, morphology, […]

Improving Discoverability and Impact of African Resources

Technology has come a long way, and amazing inventions are coming up every day. Today, people have virtual assistants on their phones and can ask them whatever they want. Your car’s navigation system can provide you with a set of instructions to guide your way. But what if these solutions were in a language you […]

Lanfrica Crosses Milestone of 1000 African AI Resources🎉

In 2022, Lanfrica, following its launch, set a goal to find and link at least 1000 African language resources. We are pleased to announce that on the last day of 2022, we achieved this milestone, and are now providing access to more than 1000 African resources on our platform. This achievement is a testament to […]

African Carpentries Community meetup with Lanfrica  

African Carpentries Meetup with Lanfrica

Lanfrica and the problems facing the advancement of technologies for African languages On Thursday, August 11 2022, at 7:00 a.m. UTC,  Lanfrica presented at the CarpentryCon 2022 event, hosted by The African Carpentries Community. About the talk Africa is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world – a continent rich in languages […]

We Ain’t Just Cooking Jollof Rice, We Are Building AfricaNLP

There is more to Africa than the varieties of Jollof Rice delicacies or the melodious and vibeable tunes of Afrobeats. There are African languages! With the rise of Natural Language Processing, attention has been heavily placed on western languages with several discoveries and advancements that make these languages highly resourced. However, one may ask or […]